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Investigators from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) were expected to arrive Sunday in the former rebel city of Duma, near Damascus, to investigate the alleged chemical attack that triggered Western strikes against the Al Assad regime. Read more
Iran’s top leadership Tuesday vowed to avenge the death of seven of its military advisers in Syria in Israeli airstrikes on a military base deemed a drone factory used by Iran. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s foreign policy advisor Ali Read more
UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, on Monday briefed the emergency Security Council meeting following reports of a chemical weapons attack in Syria over the weekend. The recent escalating violence across Syria, including allegations of chemical weapons use Read more
Syria, Russia, and Iran have blamed Israel for conducting air strikes on a Syrian air base in an act that reportedly killed 14 people including 4 Iranians and operatives of Lebanon-based Shia movement Hezbollah. Syria backtracked Monday after it accused Read more
The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) has denounced the chemical attack carried by the Syrian regime forces against civilians in the city of Douma (East of Damascus), killing dozens of children, women and men. The Rabat-based Islamic organization Read more
A court handed death penalty by hanging to the Lebanese and Syrian spouses, found guilty of the death of 29-year old Filipina house worker Joanna Demafelis. The house worker, reported missing for over a year, was found stuffed in a Read more
France is not planning military engagement in Northern Syria on the side of rebels and Kurdish forces labeled by Ankara as terrorists, a source from the French presidency told Turkish Daily Sabah. The source who did not want to be Read more
More than 1,700 people have reportedly been killed in military operations and airstrikes on Eastern Ghouta since late February, the United Nations aid chief said, describing the past few months of relentless bloodshed as “some of the worst yet” for Read more
The situation in the northwestern Syrian town of Afrin is deeply alarming as dozens of children have been killed since fighting began in the city, where people are under bombardment, hospitals have been shut down and water supplies cut off, Read more
The European Parliament members have strongly condemned all atrocities, shelling of civilians and widespread violations of human rights and international law committed in Syria during the seven-year conflict, holding the Assad regime, Russia and Iran responsible of all the heinous Read more